This collection contains individual-level data on
mid-Nineteenth Century births at the Philadelphia Almshouse Hospital,
an institution for the poor and their offspring. Variables in the
dataset include age, marital status, place of birth, parity (number of
previous children), type of birth, position (1,2,3,4) of birth, day of
birth, commencement of labor, hour of delivery, times of stages of
labor, sex of infant, total length of infant, body length of infant,
birth weight, length of gestation, a... (more info)

This collection contains individual-level data on
mid-Nineteenth Century births at the Philadelphia Almshouse Hospital,
an institution for the poor and their offspring. Variables in the
dataset include age, marital status, place of birth, parity (number of
previous children), type of birth, position (1,2,3,4) of birth, day of
birth, commencement of labor, hour of delivery, times of stages of
labor, sex of infant, total length of infant, body length of infant,
birth weight, length of gestation, and total duration of labor.

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Study Description

Citation

Goldin, Claudia, and Robert A. Margo. Birthweight Data From the Philadelphia Almshouse Hospital, 1848-1873. ICPSR20701-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-01-03. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20701.v1

Methodology

Data Source:

obstetrics records

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: